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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1924
Page
4
The piece discusses child labor in the United States and Canada, highlighting widespread exploitation. It cites Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s plea and calls for action as nations vote on constitutional protections, urging readers to hear the children’s cries and end their suffering in mines and factories.
Rastus Johnson testifies a man who fired a shot saw someone flee from a chicken coop. The judge notes the witness may be mistaken and suggests the fleeing figure resembled Johnson. The exchange centers on identification and potential mistaken notice during the inquiry.
Adopting American custom, German students increasingly work for pay to afford college. About half of students live on under $15 monthly from home, prompting universities to set up employment bureaus and on campus shops and light industry. At Goettingen University 1000 students earn noon meals and 500 supper through work, reducing student aloofness toward townspeople.
A Sulfurous remark from St. Catharines Standard recalls American round-the-world aviators forced to avoid landing in Russia due to missing treaties, while landing in Japan drew overwhelming kindness amid tensions over immigration. The editor notes a claim Japan is superior to Russia. Environment is key, and a china pitcher containing flour and water makes cream sauce, while a sidewalk pail yields bilisticker's paste.
The Department of Agriculture in Ottawa enacts safeguards against wart disease in potatoes. Europe Canary Islands Newfoundland St Pierre et Miquelon and California exports are banned. Shipments from Pennsylvania West Virginia Maryland require a certificate that stock was grown outside quarantined areas and free from wart disease and not in contact with infected material. Potatoes from all other U S states must bear an official certificate naming the growing state.
In Worcester England a police magistrate insisted Mrs Martha Gunn pay a small fee described as cell rent after she slept for three weeks in a jail cell. The charge was forgotten by the court but the fine was imposed.
A lady in the wrong department asks about Dickens and Cricket on the Hearth. A salesman replies with a practical pivot offering a table-tennis set, highlighting a humorous mix up in retail dialogue.
Alberta shows a higher average poultry per farm at 75.9 compared with most provinces, trailing only Ontario and Quebec in Canada. The national average is 63.9. British Columbia averages 86, Saskatchewan 76.2, Manitoba 61.7, Nova Scotia 17.9, Prince Edward Island 60.4, New Brunswick 28.2, and Alberta’s mild cows per farm reach 49.0.
Hon. T. A. Low announces amendments to the Research Council Act to establish a National Research Institute. The measure would extend public service superannuation benefits to employees with permanent positions under the Research Council.
A patron asks for The Week of Ethel at a holiday resort library. The sub-librarian seeks help from the chief who instantly infers a lisp and suggests The Weaker Vessel as the corrected title.
Canadian flour production from September 1923 to April 1924 reached 14,624,159 barrels, up from 14,061,605 in the prior year. Exports in the eight months totaled 8,790,976 barrels, surpassing the previous period’s 8,087,739 barrels despite similar total production.
Howard Carter recalls the lotus wreath placed on King Tutankhamun by his wife as a faded blue circlet that endured through the centuries, highlighting the enduring beauty amid the ancient tomb’s wonders.
A brief quarrel at a social gathering ends with a man being disqualified after he asks the hostess's young daughter for a kiss. The girl rebukes him, saying kissing is for children and he argues he may be one.
The article extols Jasper National Park as Canada’s scenic marvel with mountain and lake vistas. Visitors may ride motor roads or pack trails from Jasper Park Lodge to Mount Edna Cavell and Ghost Glacier, with Maligne Canyon and Lakes attracting growing crowds and Canadians increasingly discovering local wonders.
An essay reflecting on fate and achievement as the measure of life. It cites Hudde’s vanished thirty years studying China, then argues life is a sequence of losses and survivals. True purpose lies in what we have accomplished and how we have improved ourselves.
Descendants of Dr. Paul Westermann claim Soviet authorities in Moscow search for a secret library of Ivan IV. The volumes, mainly Greek and Egyptian texts from the fourth century, were said to be moved to a Kremlin dungeon by the tsar. Legends say builders vanished and were killed to keep the location secret.
The piece praises the planners of the British Empire Exhibition for bringing the Empire to England. It claims a single day at the Exhibition teaches more about Britain's inheritance than a year of travel. It notes the common Londoner’s surprise at not visiting iconic sites, then says neglecting the Empire display shows sluggish indifference.
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